spats

Example Sentences

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"Now that China understands she will be around for a while it will be rethinking how to insulate economic relations from diplomatic spats."

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

To do so, he calculated, would risk ongoing public spats with not just the most powerful man on the planet, but someone with near zero compunction when it comes to spectacularly falling out with people.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

There are spats and hugs, frolics and bonding, and not much thrust to the tale.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

When Larry chokes on a crudité at the party, all of those spats are moot.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2025

After seeing JT’s parents, his father so angry and vicious and his mother as passive as a wallflower, my family’s little spats seemed like a child’s game.

From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine